Lead Cyber Security Engineer

Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience leading security engineering teams within complex, highly regulated organisations.
• Strong background in cyber security engineering, architecture, vulnerability management, and application security.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale security platforms from strategy through implementation and operation.
• Expertise in automation, cloud technologies, analytics, and security tooling integration.
• Comfortable engaging executive stakeholders and translating risk into practical engineering outcomes.
• Experience within financial services, capital markets, banking, or critical infrastructure environments is highly desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of cyber security tooling and platforms.
• Drive vulnerability, exposure, and security posture management across complex technology estates.
• Develop and enhance application security, API security, AI security, and threat modelling capabilities.
• Establish security metrics, reporting, and analytics platforms to measure control effectiveness.
• Build automation-first engineering practices and integrate security into DevOps and development pipelines.
• Partner with senior technology and business stakeholders to align security strategy with organisational objectives.
• Manage vendor relationships and oversee security technology selection and optimisation.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Security

More:

We are a leading global financial services organisation offering a senior technical leadership opportunity to drive enterprise-wide cyber security engineering within a highly regulated environment. This role has high visibility and direct impact across vulnerability management, application security, AI security, threat modelling, security analytics, and metrics engineering. We are focused on building scalable, automated security services and a high-performing engineering function that strengthens organisational resilience.

last updated 36 week of 2026